- Adam attempts to survive the flood, making Noah resort to force on the ark.
Introduction
The conversations between Adam and Noah during the building of the ark depicts the settlement between God's people. Despite the two main characters being the "original" followers of God in The Bible, their personalities clash and result in a dangerous dispute at the end of unrighteous human race.
Audio
Script
Performed by MChen and AGross
Narrator: Two months before God sends the flood, Noah is building the ark as God told him to when he sees a very old man walking decrepitly across the land towards him. Noah stops working and walks over to him, and he greets him.
Slight Breeze
Noah: (Semi-solemnly) Well hello. How do you do today?
Adam: (Boisterously) Hey Noah. It's me, Adam. I've been saunterin' across this strip of land for ... hmm ... about seven centuries now.
Noah: But I thought that you were dea(d)--
Adam: I know, isn't it great. I had digged a hole under the gate to the Garden of Eden and lived in the ground for about seven hundred years. (Distantly) My age must have been frozen under there, huh.
Pause
Noah: Adam?
Adam: Oh right. Hi.
Noah: Alright. Why are you here?
Adam: Well, I was chattin' with God the other day, and I got a bad vibe from him.
Noah: (Shifty-eyed) I don't know what you mea(n)--
Adam: I continued on my walk to ya because I thougth ya might know what that means.
Noah: Well I--
Adam: Has God talked to ya about anythin' recently.
Noah: Not re(ally)--
Adam: What's that ya buildin'?
Noah: IT'S AN ARK!
Adam: You wouldn't be doin' that as a lark. Why are ya workin' so hard?
Noah: I'm--
Adam: Slow down.
Noah: I am working so hard because you took that wicked bite of apple and--
Adam: It wasn't an apple. It was just a fruit.
Noah: (Teeth clenched) And now God will destroy all of you and I am saving two of every animal and my family.
Adam: Wait...are you sayin’ that ... wait ... so you're sayin’ God is goin’ to smite me?
Noah: Not exactly .. it's a flood
Adam: OH God .. save me. This is your fault! You censurable ox! I didn’t do anything.
Stronger Breeze
Noah: Yes, well. I need to go back to work. See you (pause) hmm(quietly), I can't think of the next time I'll see you.Adam: Wait Wait. I am comin’ with you.
Noah: I am sorry, but God said that I was to bring just my family. You are overreacting a little to much.
Adam: I’m completely serious. I’m part of your family. I am your great great great grand..something. Somehow I’m related to you.
Noah: (Angrily) But God said, "You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your son's wives with you." LISTEN TO GOD'S WORD!
Adam: Did I ever tell you how nice and forgiving you are?
Noah: (Shyly; modestly) Well, I don't know about that.
Adam: How about I help you with the ark so I can see you off when the time comes.
Noah: Well, I guess I could use some help.
Adam: There, now you're bein’ sensible. Oh, by the way, happy B-Day. I was once six hundred.
Narrator: Adam stayed with Noah and his family for two months and sixteen days. Because he was old and feeble, he wasn't able to help with much of the building. He did, however, make secret plans. While he lay gloomily in his tent the day before the flood, he recounts his plans to himself.
Distant Drizzle
Adam: I must wake now. It is early in the mornin, before Noah and his family awake and the flood sweeps me away. I need to go and try to hide out on the side of the boat so that I can be saved somehow.
Narrator: Adam crawls out of the tent and toward the ark. To his surprise, he sees Adam and his family already awake preparing the ship. It was starting to rain slightly and Adam tried to sneak closer to the ark.
Noah: (Shouting) Hey what are you doing down there?
Slight Drizzle
Adam: (Shouting) Me?
Noah: (Shouting) Yes you.
Adam: (Shouting - not sarcastic) I'm just tryin’ to get a seat so I can watch you float safely away as I drown.
Noah: (Shouting) Ok. Just stay away from the boat and obey God's orders.
Heavier Raining
Adam: (To himself) I need to make a break to the side and climb up before the rain starts fallin’ any harder.
Noah: (Shouting) Hey! Stop running! You are disobeying God! Japheth and your unnamed wife! Keep him from boarding! We must obey God!
Adam: (Shouting) Don't disobey your family, Japheth.
Noah: (Shouting) You are disobeying your family. God is even more directly your father. You are too much of a God-fearing man. You must also have some faith in yourself as well as with him.
Waves
Adam: (Shouting) Help me up Noah! Don't go against God by goin’ against me! Help me Ham!
Noah: Ham. Don't. Let God take him. No Adam! Don't you dare climb up here!
Adam: It is not my fault that the rest of the planet should be destroyed. It was you that did evil unto me.
Noah: You--
Adam: No! I will smash this boat personally so that everything dies with me and God’s creation.
Smashing
Noah: Get away from here!
Adam: Everyone is to blame for this destruction but me. Your family has done wrong and will do wrong after this flood. God destroys his own creation!
Noah: This is outrageous!
Adam: Noah, NO!
Big Wave
Adam: Ahhh!
Splash
Adam: You are cursed for your disloyalty! Both Ham and you, No(ah)--
Narrator: After all were gone from the Earth except Noah, his family, and two of every animal, Noah and his family rested from the dealing of the past months. Noah lies in his bed making plans for the next one hundred and fifty days.
Noah: Thirty eight days. I have thirty eight days more of these pitter patters above my head. It may be a couple hundred days after that until we reach land. At least Adam is gone. Soon my life can calm down, even though serving god has been everything in my life. Maybe I'll set up a vineyard.
Brainstorm
Having and Hiding Power: Distant Ways - Painting and Bible Analysis
Although Adam appears solemn when interacting with other people, he readily places blame upon others to keep his status of innocence. When Michelangelo paints Adam interacting with God at his creation in his painting called Creation of Adam, he puts great detail into the eyes of Adam. Adam looks off into the distance with blank eyes.
Adam’s large and staring eyes appear disconnected from God and the rest of the angels in the painting, solemnly keeping distant from other beings even with the amazing moment of his creation surrounding him. Despite Adam’s disregard for the ideals of his connected culture, he tries to keep himself separated from society by making himself feel superior.
In the Bible, after God realizes the couple of Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge, Adam says, “The women whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree” (Gen 3.12).
The word “fruit” implies that there is a sweet power occurring because of experience people get when eating such a natural candy. Because of the fruit, the redactors imply that Adam pushes the fruit and apple away from him towards Adam for God to judge.
Even though Noah acts solemnly in the eyes of God, he lashes his anger out on other people. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione depicts Noah leading and guiding the pairs of animals up the ramp as he holds his robes against the wind in his painting Noah Leading the Animals into the Ark. As Noah devotionally obeys God’s command, he doesn’t expose himself to the elements that threaten him.
Noah’s solemnity with his clothing despite the difficult circumstances reflects his unique strength to remain modest and solemn. Noah acts calmly in the face of danger and devotion to God, but acts rashly when personally insulted.
After Ham violates his privacy when he becomes drunk, he says, “Cursed be Canaan; lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers,” (Gen 9.25). The modal auxiliary “shall” suggests an absolutely certain command that a future event will occur. In the case of angry Abraham, he assumes the power to command a curse upon Canaan that will inevitably occur, preventing any revocation of it.
Dialogue Analysis
Noah determines to stubbornly stay righteous to God when an obstacle faces him, and he can out-do himself to the point of near self destruction.
When Noah refuses Adam's desperate entry onto the ark near the beginning of the dialogue, he says "'But God said, "You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your son's wives with you." LISTEN TO GOD'S WORD!" (Gross 1).
The use of the word "listen" indicates that a point is trying to be emphasized. Noah tries to emphasize God's word to Adam when Adam's desperation angers him. Noah's determination keeps Adam at bay until Noah and his family can complete their task for God.
Despite Noah's attempts to remind Adam that he can't come with his family and himself on the ark, he never completely succeeds in his plans to dispose of him in the beginning. Noah stubbornly keeps telling Adam the same ideas which he has said before. Adam stands in his way, but Noah realizes that he stands between Adam and God because of his loyalty to God.
Once Adam tries to climb onto the ark, Noah angers him so much that he begins to become destructive. Adam says to Noah before he falls into the sea, "I will smash this boat personally so that everything dies with me and God’s creation" (Gross 1).
Noah understands that he must get rid of Adam, but he doesn't realize that his close ties with him could allow him to collapse with him. Adam becomes so angry with Noah's disregard for his being that he wishes "everything" would die. The use of the word everything in the context exemplifies Adam's fieriocity.
Noah casually looks upon this situation by repeating himself and with no physical threat. Noah doesn't understand that God couldn't save Noah and his family from his own flood if they were destroyed, and his loyalty and dependence almost allows this to happen. Only Adam's selfish and ferocious character save Noah because Adam destroys himself first.
Artist Corner (Extra Information)
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Michelangelo Buonarroti: Michelangelo Buonarroti was born in the Florentine region in the 1400s. He became famous for his artistic skills after becoming an apprentice and practicing anatomy disections at a hospital. As a painter and sculpter, he painted the Sistine Chapel as a fresco, and carved the Statue of David.
Bearded Oriental
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione : Born in the 1600s, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was an Italian artist majorly influenced by foriegn affairs. He invented the monotype and is well known for his fluent brush paintings with oil on paper.
Reflection
This assignment constantly made me stressed. Throughout this assignment, however, I learned the importance of completely understanding an assignment before undertaking it and I found that after this step, comes immediate planning of the entire project.
At the beginning, I began to Brainstorm on Webspiration and came up with an inside out, upside down view of my project. After much revising and rethinking, I finally launched myself into the project with my script.
With my script came my analyses, and with those out of the way, I moved the project to the very back of my mind. Yes, I was worried about it, but I kept telling myself I had other things to do.
Once the deadline began to loom nearer, I snapped myself out of the dark and began to impulsively work on the project. The worst part was when the file for some of my voices was corrupt and I had to record it all over again on my noisy computer.
Finally the project came together and I had been satisfied. This project taught me many things throughout, as one can imagine with my intense procrastination. Firstly, I learned the importance of immediate planning. I can change Abraham Lincoln's quote to say "Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today, for it will never be done at all." This may exaggerate a bit (obviously my project is here), but my point is to work first.
Secondly, I learned that technology is not always a kind, nice tool. Sometimes it can act like a slobbering, malicious monster. I had several problems with Wikispaces and also with Audacity. Wikispaces would change what I was doing, while I was doing it, and Audacity just didn't do what I needed.
Overall, I found that perseverance and overcoming procrastination allow for a greater achievement, and I will not forget the lessons that I have learned from this assignment.
Onto the Arkby AGross
- Adam attempts to survive the flood, making Noah resort to force on the ark.Introduction
The conversations between Adam and Noah during the building of the ark depicts the settlement between God's people. Despite the two main characters being the "original" followers of God in The Bible, their personalities clash and result in a dangerous dispute at the end of unrighteous human race.
Audio
Script
Performed by MChen and AGrossNarrator: Two months before God sends the flood, Noah is building the ark as God told him to when he sees a very old man walking decrepitly across the land towards him. Noah stops working and walks over to him, and he greets him.
Slight Breeze
Noah: (Semi-solemnly) Well hello. How do you do today?
Adam: (Boisterously) Hey Noah. It's me, Adam. I've been saunterin' across this strip of land for ... hmm ... about seven centuries now.
Noah: But I thought that you were dea(d)--
Adam: I know, isn't it great. I had digged a hole under the gate to the Garden of Eden and lived in the ground for about seven hundred years. (Distantly) My age must have been frozen under there, huh.
Pause
Noah: Adam?
Adam: Oh right. Hi.
Noah: Alright. Why are you here?
Adam: Well, I was chattin' with God the other day, and I got a bad vibe from him.
Noah: (Shifty-eyed) I don't know what you mea(n)--
Adam: I continued on my walk to ya because I thougth ya might know what that means.
Noah: Well I--
Adam: Has God talked to ya about anythin' recently.
Noah: Not re(ally)--
Adam: What's that ya buildin'?
Noah: IT'S AN ARK!
Adam: You wouldn't be doin' that as a lark. Why are ya workin' so hard?
Noah: I'm--
Adam: Slow down.
Noah: I am working so hard because you took that wicked bite of apple and--
Adam: It wasn't an apple. It was just a fruit.
Noah: (Teeth clenched) And now God will destroy all of you and I am saving two of every animal and my family.
Adam: Wait...are you sayin’ that ... wait ... so you're sayin’ God is goin’ to smite me?
Noah: Not exactly .. it's a flood
Adam: OH God .. save me. This is your fault! You censurable ox! I didn’t do anything.
Stronger Breeze
Noah: Yes, well. I need to go back to work. See you (pause) hmm(quietly), I can't think of the next time I'll see you.Adam: Wait Wait. I am comin’ with you.
Noah: I am sorry, but God said that I was to bring just my family. You are overreacting a little to much.
Adam: I’m completely serious. I’m part of your family. I am your great great great grand..something. Somehow I’m related to you.
Noah: (Angrily) But God said, "You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your son's wives with you." LISTEN TO GOD'S WORD!
Adam: Did I ever tell you how nice and forgiving you are?
Noah: (Shyly; modestly) Well, I don't know about that.
Adam: How about I help you with the ark so I can see you off when the time comes.
Noah: Well, I guess I could use some help.
Adam: There, now you're bein’ sensible. Oh, by the way, happy B-Day. I was once six hundred.
Narrator: Adam stayed with Noah and his family for two months and sixteen days. Because he was old and feeble, he wasn't able to help with much of the building. He did, however, make secret plans. While he lay gloomily in his tent the day before the flood, he recounts his plans to himself.
Distant Drizzle
Adam: I must wake now. It is early in the mornin, before Noah and his family awake and the flood sweeps me away. I need to go and try to hide out on the side of the boat so that I can be saved somehow.
Narrator: Adam crawls out of the tent and toward the ark. To his surprise, he sees Adam and his family already awake preparing the ship. It was starting to rain slightly and Adam tried to sneak closer to the ark.
Noah: (Shouting) Hey what are you doing down there?
Slight Drizzle
Adam: (Shouting) Me?
Noah: (Shouting) Yes you.
Adam: (Shouting - not sarcastic) I'm just tryin’ to get a seat so I can watch you float safely away as I drown.
Noah: (Shouting) Ok. Just stay away from the boat and obey God's orders.
Heavier Raining
Adam: (To himself) I need to make a break to the side and climb up before the rain starts fallin’ any harder.
Noah: (Shouting) Hey! Stop running! You are disobeying God! Japheth and your unnamed wife! Keep him from boarding! We must obey God!
Adam: (Shouting) Don't disobey your family, Japheth.
Noah: (Shouting) You are disobeying your family. God is even more directly your father. You are too much of a God-fearing man. You must also have some faith in yourself as well as with him.
Waves
Adam: (Shouting) Help me up Noah! Don't go against God by goin’ against me! Help me Ham!
Noah: Ham. Don't. Let God take him. No Adam! Don't you dare climb up here!
Adam: It is not my fault that the rest of the planet should be destroyed. It was you that did evil unto me.
Noah: You--
Adam: No! I will smash this boat personally so that everything dies with me and God’s creation.
Smashing
Noah: Get away from here!
Adam: Everyone is to blame for this destruction but me. Your family has done wrong and will do wrong after this flood. God destroys his own creation!
Noah: This is outrageous!
Adam: Noah, NO!
Big Wave
Adam: Ahhh!
Splash
Adam: You are cursed for your disloyalty! Both Ham and you, No(ah)--
Narrator: After all were gone from the Earth except Noah, his family, and two of every animal, Noah and his family rested from the dealing of the past months. Noah lies in his bed making plans for the next one hundred and fifty days.
Noah: Thirty eight days. I have thirty eight days more of these pitter patters above my head. It may be a couple hundred days after that until we reach land. At least Adam is gone. Soon my life can calm down, even though serving god has been everything in my life. Maybe I'll set up a vineyard.
Brainstorm
Having and Hiding Power: Distant Ways - Painting and Bible Analysis
Although Adam appears solemn when interacting with other people, he readily places blame upon others to keep his status of innocence. When Michelangelo paints Adam interacting with God at his creation in his painting called Creation of Adam, he puts great detail into the eyes of Adam. Adam looks off into the distance with blank eyes.
Adam’s large and staring eyes appear disconnected from God and the rest of the angels in the painting, solemnly keeping distant from other beings even with the amazing moment of his creation surrounding him. Despite Adam’s disregard for the ideals of his connected culture, he tries to keep himself separated from society by making himself feel superior.
In the Bible, after God realizes the couple of Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge, Adam says, “The women whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree” (Gen 3.12).
The word “fruit” implies that there is a sweet power occurring because of experience people get when eating such a natural candy. Because of the fruit, the redactors imply that Adam pushes the fruit and apple away from him towards Adam for God to judge.
Even though Noah acts solemnly in the eyes of God, he lashes his anger out on other people. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione depicts Noah leading and guiding the pairs of animals up the ramp as he holds his robes against the wind in his painting Noah Leading the Animals into the Ark. As Noah devotionally obeys God’s command, he doesn’t expose himself to the elements that threaten him.
Noah’s solemnity with his clothing despite the difficult circumstances reflects his unique strength to remain modest and solemn. Noah acts calmly in the face of danger and devotion to God, but acts rashly when personally insulted.
After Ham violates his privacy when he becomes drunk, he says, “Cursed be Canaan; lowest of slaves shall he be to his brothers,” (Gen 9.25). The modal auxiliary “shall” suggests an absolutely certain command that a future event will occur. In the case of angry Abraham, he assumes the power to command a curse upon Canaan that will inevitably occur, preventing any revocation of it.
Dialogue Analysis
Noah determines to stubbornly stay righteous to God when an obstacle faces him, and he can out-do himself to the point of near self destruction.When Noah refuses Adam's desperate entry onto the ark near the beginning of the dialogue, he says "' But God said, "You shall come into the ark, you, your sons, your wife, and your son's wives with you." LISTEN TO GOD'S WORD!" (Gross 1).
The use of the word "listen" indicates that a point is trying to be emphasized. Noah tries to emphasize God's word to Adam when Adam's desperation angers him. Noah's determination keeps Adam at bay until Noah and his family can complete their task for God.
Despite Noah's attempts to remind Adam that he can't come with his family and himself on the ark, he never completely succeeds in his plans to dispose of him in the beginning. Noah stubbornly keeps telling Adam the same ideas which he has said before. Adam stands in his way, but Noah realizes that he stands between Adam and God because of his loyalty to God.
Once Adam tries to climb onto the ark, Noah angers him so much that he begins to become destructive. Adam says to Noah before he falls into the sea, "I will smash this boat personally so that everything dies with me and God’s creation" (Gross 1).
Noah understands that he must get rid of Adam, but he doesn't realize that his close ties with him could allow him to collapse with him. Adam becomes so angry with Noah's disregard for his being that he wishes "everything" would die. The use of the word everything in the context exemplifies Adam's fieriocity.
Noah casually looks upon this situation by repeating himself and with no physical threat. Noah doesn't understand that God couldn't save Noah and his family from his own flood if they were destroyed, and his loyalty and dependence almost allows this to happen. Only Adam's selfish and ferocious character save Noah because Adam destroys himself first.
Artist Corner (Extra Information)
Reflection
This assignment constantly made me stressed. Throughout this assignment, however, I learned the importance of completely understanding an assignment before undertaking it and I found that after this step, comes immediate planning of the entire project.At the beginning, I began to Brainstorm on Webspiration and came up with an inside out, upside down view of my project. After much revising and rethinking, I finally launched myself into the project with my script.
With my script came my analyses, and with those out of the way, I moved the project to the very back of my mind. Yes, I was worried about it, but I kept telling myself I had other things to do.
Once the deadline began to loom nearer, I snapped myself out of the dark and began to impulsively work on the project. The worst part was when the file for some of my voices was corrupt and I had to record it all over again on my noisy computer.
Finally the project came together and I had been satisfied. This project taught me many things throughout, as one can imagine with my intense procrastination. Firstly, I learned the importance of immediate planning. I can change Abraham Lincoln's quote to say "Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today, for it will never be done at all." This may exaggerate a bit (obviously my project is here), but my point is to work first.
Secondly, I learned that technology is not always a kind, nice tool. Sometimes it can act like a slobbering, malicious monster. I had several problems with Wikispaces and also with Audacity. Wikispaces would change what I was doing, while I was doing it, and Audacity just didn't do what I needed.
Overall, I found that perseverance and overcoming procrastination allow for a greater achievement, and I will not forget the lessons that I have learned from this assignment.
Citations
Buonarroti, Michelangelo. The Sistine Chapel. 1500s. Vatican Museum, Vatican
City. OneOnta. Web. 20 May 2010. <http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/110images/sl8images/Michel_CreationofAdam.jpg>.
Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto. Head of a Bearded Oriental. 1655.
Masterworks Fine Art. Web. 20 May 2010.
<http://www.masterworksfineart.com/images/artists_bio/castiglione.jpg>.
Garden of Eden Paradise. N.d. Flickr. Web. 20 May 2010.
<http://www.flickr.com/photos/7509958@N06/435745405/>.
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione . Getty Foundation, n.d. Web. 20 May 2010.
<http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=921>.
Kirkliss. Storm at Sea. N.d. Pixdaus. N.p., n.d. Web. 20 May 2010.
<http://pixdaus.com/index.php?pageno=12&tag=storm&sort=tag>.
Kren, Emil, and Daniel Marx. "Michelangelo Buonarroti." Web Gallery of Art.
N.p., n.d. Web. 20 May 2010. <http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/m/michelan/biograph.html>.
Portrait of Michelangelo. N.d. Casa Buonarroti, Florence. StlDesignWorld. Web.
20 May 2010. <http://stldesignworld.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/e_michelangelo1.jpg>.